Zareef Ahmed

A polyglot programmer and enterprise architect having hands on experience in Ruby,Python, PHP, Perl, Java and many other languages. Specialist in Devops, Cloud migration and implementation on Amazon Cloud (AWS), Google Cloud (GCP) and Microsoft Azure along with Hadoop programming for big data processing.

For AWS’s sales growth to accelerate in that fashion is noteworthy because AWS is by far the leader in cloud market share, ahead of second-ranked Microsoft Azure by a wide margin; accelerating growth speaks to overall strength for AWS and the cloud market in general.

Operating income for AWS was $7.29 billion in 2018, up from $4.31 billion in 2017.

AWS represents a growing share of Amazon’s overall revenue — by a smidge — 11% in 2018 compared with 10% in the previous year, and 10% in the fourth quarter of 2018, compared with 8% in the year-ago quarter.

And AWS is the lion’s share of Amazon’s operating income: Nearly 58% in the fourth quarter of 2018, and nearly 59% for the full year.

For Amazon overall, including its mainstay retail business, for the quarter, sales were up 20% to $72.4 billion after a strong holiday season. Net income increased to $3 billion in the fourth quarter, or $6.04 per diluted share, compared with $1.9 billion or $3.75 per diluted share in the year-ago quarter.

For the full year, net sales were up 31% to $232.9 billion. Net income increased to $10.1 billion, or $20.14 per diluted share, compared with $3 billion or $6.15 per diluted share in 2017.